Maximum Dinobots #2 Review (SPOILERS)

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:11 pm

Three weeks in, and still no copy.

Guess I better go trade with this.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:56 pm

Ouch.

der2 · Post by **der2** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:10 pm

read it a couple of days ago, flames, explosions and giant robots hitting other giant robots, exactly what I was looking for! With enough plot to run for the 5 issues at a good pace.

I'm looking forward to more.

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:19 pm

Yaya wrote:Three weeks in, and still no copy.

Guess I better go trade with this.

Same here. I finally torrented it just to keep in the loop. I'll buy it when I see it.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:58 pm

Nothing for me, either.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:09 pm

the damn thing still isn't in.

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:58 am

IDW's store no longer lists MD #2 OR the subscription to the series, and there's STILL no explanation for the poor distribution.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:09 am

Rubbish.

I keep rereading this - it gets better every time (sorry)

Which is the polar opposite of AHM.

Oh noes! I mentioned one comic in a topic about another comic and done gone and compared them! How long before the sky hits my tender head?

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:53 am

MD is the only thing lately that I'm looking forward to...

That, and the 13. Any word on that? As I heard (in recent Bay interviews) that the Fallen will be a member of the original 13 in the movies as well, I hope it's still gonna happen. Written by Simon, of course.

Post by **Denyer** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:59 pm

I sincerely hope it isn't, personally.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:20 pm

Really? He's always so good with the big cosmic stuff.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:37 am

Recently got a hold of this myself.

Good stuff, lots of giant robots fighting. Also nice to see that Furman is going with a rather classic kind of nasty Scorponok. Drunk with his own physical power, sadistic to those smaller and weaker than himself.

Don't really have anything bad to say here, except maybe that I'm still a bit dubious about the final panel. Shockers has just been so misused as a "mastermind", you know?

I'll certainly pick up next issue, since there is still great, great promise for the next parts.

How did you tell the bots Grimlock sent for are the Monsterbots btw? Personally I thought it was the Predacons myself, since the one closest to the viewer is red and yellow. (Repugnus, then?) I guess the fact that there's three of them is a good clue tho.

Post by **snarl** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:31 am

So anyway...

When the [composite word including 'f*ck'] is Issue 3 out, cause I aint seen or heard **** about it...

IDW are really starting to piss me off.

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:40 am

I can't believe they're apparently putting out so few copies of what could be their most successful series given what I've seen of how my local store tends to get a massive stack of copies and sell out within about a day.
Good thing I hve it on order. But it had better not go down the WW:Age of wrath route.

Post by **snarl** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:55 am

They're severley testing the patience of a lot of good fans.

Does anybody else feel like they're reaching a point where it feels like they're having a joke, rubbing our noses in it?

I can't believe how specatacularly different (in a bad way) I feel about the company, and in such a short space of time to boot.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:14 pm

Predabot wrote:Recently got a hold of this myself.

Glad one of us did.

I'll just enjoy it vicariously through you.

Post by **Best First** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:01 pm

snarl wrote:They're severley testing the patience of a lot of good fans.

Does anybody else feel like they're reaching a point where it feels like they're having a joke, rubbing our noses in it?

I can't believe how specatacularly different (in a bad way) I feel about the company, and in such a short space of time to boot.

seems to have been a distribution fook up/selling out thingy.

the PR side of it's not been handled well tho.

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:15 am

What? Were they using the same supplier to distribute it that Zavvi got their stock from or something?

Post by **Denyer** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:29 am

Diamond treat smaller customers like ****.

Best First wrote:the PR side of it's not been handled well tho.

Struggling to remember the times when things were, TBH.

And fans running official boards is a situation that works until things start to get antagonistic, at which point it's a PR liability. Having employees represent a company in the same manner, even more so. They'd probably be better off without forums by this point, although other companies who've taken similar measures haven't come off well from the experience.

I think a best case scenario would be a locked "IDW updates" sticky into which people can periodically add stuff, even if it's just "concern acknowledged, updates if and when we have them".

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:45 am

According to the local comic shop's site, they finally got it in. Maybe I'll finally be able to buy it tomorrow.

In more disappointing news, they didn't get #3 in.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:05 am

Finally got a hold of this.

Found it to be boring and predictable.

Who couldn't see Grimlock trying to talk the Dinobots out of their mind control problems after all of them going at it?

Haven't been too pleased with the coloring this series. Very monotone. Doesn't do Nick's work justice. Some panels just seemed to be a mishmash of metal parts.

The saving grace was that last panel of Shockers. Bout time.

Give it a "C". Predictable.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:34 am

That's just it... Grimmy did not talk them out of Mind Control. Scorponok simply released the dampeners a bit to torment Grimmy... The dinobots are pretty much still under his control.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:53 pm

BB Shockwave wrote:That's just it... Grimmy did not talk them out of Mind Control. Scorponok simply released the dampeners a bit to torment Grimmy... The dinobots are pretty much still under his control.

I said "trying" to talk them out of it.